Opinion |Op-Art
’20s Beach Vernacular
By BEN SCHOTT
In the summer of 1922, a number of newspapers printed an anonymous lexicon of beach slang in vogue with “the shifters, flappers, cake eaters and puddle jumpers … . down at the shore.” (In reality it’s possible that many of these terms were exuberant inventions.) We reproduce this vocabulary below in the hope that it will be heard once again along the water’s edge.
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